Retweeting this again, because I cannot overemphasize HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS.

And how many MORE people signed up after each murder.

I can't remember who around here said that they had learned something new in 2026, which was that it turns out there is something they are willing to die for.

That.

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

North News mentioned it, but didn’t dig deeply. They quote Vetaw saying the police breached the home in North in case he was there, and also the Chief saying they must have known he wasn’t there or surely they would have warned the neighborhood.

“no kings, all bricks” Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.

Since people were asking about the words I shared today at the no kings protest, here's the full text. Thanks @indivistwincities.bsky.social and @mn50501.bsky.social.

Wrote it last week, but because it ended up being about how we carry grief and what we might do with it, it felt appropriate:

Yes, finding out *on here* that he stays 7 blocks from my house and that’s where the SWAT team is 😡😡😡

YouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology Erica Chenoweth - Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

Bad news for you haters. One of the researchers behind the 3.5% rule, which studied how people power has changed governments, found that one aspect of winning movements is "the ability to get people to defect from the opponent's pillars of support."

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Nightly votive in the porch garden.

"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birthplaces have the weight of a throw of the dice and all people are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." – Josephine Baker
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WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for Black youth. "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”